Incorporating the arts in science lessons improves learning
From Science Daily on 03/05/19Incorporating the arts -- rapping, dancing, drawing -- into science lessons can help low-achieving students retain more knowledge and possibly help students of all ability levels be more creative in their learning, finds a new study by Johns Hopkins University.The findings were published on Feb. 7 in Trends in Neuroscience and Education and support broader arts integration in the classroom."Our study provides more evidence that the arts are absolutely needed in schools. I hope the findings can assuage concerns that arts-based lessons won't be as effective in teaching essential skills...
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - March 11, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
8 Reasons Why Your Depression May Not Be Getting Better
You’ve been to four psychiatrists and tried over a dozen medication combinations. You still wake up with that dreadful knot in your stomach and wonder if you will ever feel better.
Some people enjoy a straight path to remission. They get diagnosed. They get a prescription. They feel better. Others’ road to recovery isn’t so linear. It’s full of winding bends and dead-ends. Sometimes it’s entirely blocked. By what? Here are a few impediments to treatment to consider if your symptoms aren’t improving.
1. The Wrong Care
Take it from the Goldilocks of mental health. I worked with six physicians and tried 23 medicat...
Source: World of Psychology - March 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Bipolar Depression General Medications Self-Help Treatment depression episode Insomnia Mood Disorder National Network of Depression Centers Sleep support Trauma Treatment Resistant Depression Source Type: blogs
We Must Be Vigilant of the Precursors to Violence Against Women
Violence against women is on the rise. In the U.S. 3 to 4 million women are abused, and more than 1,500 are killed by their abusers each year. Worldwide 35 percent of women have experienced physical and or sexual violence at some point in their lives. In the worst cases women, and sometimes even their
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - March 8, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse Domestic violence gender based violence intimate partner violence Sigma Theta Tau Source Type: blogs
Dr. Phyllis Sharps is the Black Nurse of the Year
With the Black Nurse of the Year Award, another sparkling accolade has been added to a nearly 50-year nursing career for Phyllis Sharps, PhD, RN, FAAN. Dr. Sharps was given the award by the Black Nurses Association of Greater Washington DC before family, colleagues, and students on Saturday, March 2. Beginning as an expert in maternal and child
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Who benefits from short-term medical missions?
By Katherine C. McNabb Who benefits from short-term medical mission trips? This weighed heavily on my mind when I decided to participate in the Guatemala Global Health Experience. I spent two years with the Peace Corps in the Republic of Moldova, and although I felt a profound impact after only a few days, I still
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - February 27, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: Global Nursing Guatemala On the Pulse Global health MSN (Entry Into Nursing) peace corps Source Type: blogs
An MSN Mission in Guatemala
“Leaving Guatemala is bittersweet,” writes Cuiyan Yu. From January 5-11, 2019, she and eight students in the MSN (Entry Into Nursing) program, Denise Saenz, Jessica Cooper, Jodie Pelusi, Katherine McNabb, Lizbeth Lopez, Laura Moro, Melissa Spahr, and Rebekka Lerna traveled with Dr. Vinciya Pandian and Dr. Martha Abshire on a short-term global health mission to Guatemala.
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - February 26, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: New On the Pulse Global health peace corps Source Type: blogs
Black moms know the risk, but what are the solutions?
By: Dr. Lauren Parker and Dr. Janiece Taylor Dr. Shalon M. Irving dedicated her life to understanding how structural inequality affects health, yet she unexpectedly passed away three weeks after giving birth because of postpartum complications. She is a hallmark case that demonstrates the poor maternal outcomes plaguing Black women in the U.S. regardless of
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - February 25, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: Health Equity On the Pulse black women's health health disparities Maternal health Womens health Source Type: blogs
Dean Podcast on Domestic Violence, Vaccination, and Online Education
In her latest podcast, Dean Patricia Davidson, PhD, MEd, RN, FAAN, discusses domestic violence, warning signs, and the importance of prevention and education. She also covers the topics of vaccination and the shift to online learning environments in an era of artificial intelligence. Program notes: 0:15 Definition of domestic violence 1:15 Rates of homicide 2:15
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - February 25, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Danielle Kress Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Tags: Davidson Podcast Nursing Podcasts Domestic violence gender based violence online education online nursing vaccination Violence prevention Source Type: blogs
Dr. Oz and the Future of Nursing in China
By: Quanlei Li Dr. Oz has tremendous respect and admiration for nurses around the world, and recognizes nurses’ critical role in the global health care system. That’s why he traveled to China in May to help stimulate a passion for nursing there. The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing was warmly invited to facilitate this process.
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Advice to Future Students
By: Lourdes Celius A little over two years ago, Officer Mobley greeted me as I walked into the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing for my Accepted Students Day. I was full of pride at being accepted and eager to begin my nursing journey. That day, I was nervous meeting my potential classmates and professors, but
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And Still More Work to Do
In 1889, Isabel Hampton Robb arrived at the Johns Hopkins Hospital to become the inaugural superintendent of nurses for the brand-new nurse training school. She set the standard of what we would become and began to transform the nursing profession, publishing Nursing: Its Principles and Practice in 1893. Even when she left, her contributions to
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Black Women and Matters of the Heart
By: Dr. Diana Baptiste and Dr. Yvonne Commodore Mensah February is Black History Month, and also happens to be American Heart Month! Every 38 seconds, someone’s wife, mother, sister, or daughter dies from heart disease and stroke. In the U.S. rates are highest among Black women; more than 60 percent of us are living with
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - February 14, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: Cardiovascular On the Pulse black history month black women cardiovascular disease heart attack heart disease heart month Womens health Source Type: blogs
Social Problems are Health Problems —Dean Podcast
Why does the affliction of serious illness have to be the affliction of poverty? In her latest podcast, Dean Patricia Davidson, PhD, MEd, RN, FAAN, discusses this question along with social determinants of health and equitable mechanisms of financing health care in the future. She also chats with host Elizabeth Tracey about gun violence and
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - February 12, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Danielle Kress Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Tags: Davidson Podcast Nursing Podcasts On the Pulse Dean podcast gun violence Patricia Davidson policy social determinants of health Source Type: blogs
Black Americans ’ Historical Trauma and Our Response to ‘ Surviving R. Kelly ’
Forty-four percent of Black women experience intimate partner violence (physical or sexual violence, stalking, and/or psychological aggression) at some point in our lives. That’s compared to one-third of White women. And Black women are murdered by an intimate partner at a higher rate than any other race. In 2013, we were two and a half
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - February 11, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse Domestic violence health disparities intimate partner violence sexual assault Womens health Source Type: blogs
